The FAAM Chemistry Working Group met at the University of York on Wednesday 24th October to discuss Chemistry Instrumentation aboard the FAAM aircraft.

Another article on how FGAM are contributing to the tracking of air pollution during the olympics is available on the RAL Space news feed.

Tracking air pollution around the Olympics describes how the FGAM lidar is being used to look at ozone concentrations and aerosols.

On the 9th August BBC News at Ten featured a 5 minute report on the NCAS lead CLEARFLO project.  It contained footage of Dr Lisa Whalley running the FGAM FAGE laser and other FGAM instruments on board the research aircraft.

A follow up article is now on the BBC website entitled ' Effort set to track air pollution' is available which contains further footage of FGAM instruments including data from the CO, Ozone and the view inside the FGAM GC container.

An excellent article and well worth a read / view.

The second intensive operating period (IOP) of the Clearflo campaign is well under way at a temporary site in North Kensington, London, UK. A full suite of gas phase and aerosol composition measurements are being made along with a number of meteorological measurements. The first IOP took place in January-February 2012 and together they will give important insight to seasonality in urban emissions and photochemistry.  Concurrent flights (aboard the FAAM146 and NERC Dornier aircraft) above the London area will provide useful information about the vertical extent of the urban emissions.

For more information about the Clearflo project, including the IOPs, visit the Clearflo website. You can keep track of events at the Clearflo campaign through the Clearflo blog.